Tommaso de Vio Cajetan

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Tommaso de Vio Cajetan was a prominent 16th-century Italian Dominican cardinal, philosopher, and theologian best known for his influential commentaries on Thomas Aquinas and his role in early Catholic responses to the Protestant Reformation.

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instanceOf Catholic cardinal
Dominican friar
Italian philosopher
Italian theologian
Renaissance philosopher
Thomist philosopher
human
philosopher
theologian
alsoKnownAs Cajetan
linked to: Saint Cajetan

Cardinal Cajetan
linked to: Cajetan of Thiene

Gaetanus
birthName Tommaso de Vio
centuryOfActivity 16th century
countryOfCitizenship Italy
dateOfBirth 1469-02-20
dateOfDeath 1534-08-09
educatedAt University of Naples
University of Padua
ethnicGroup Italian
familyName de Vio
fieldOfWork biblical exegesis
logic
metaphysics
philosophy of language
theology
givenName Tommaso
hasReligion Roman Catholicism
influenced Catholic Counter-Reformation theology
later Thomist commentators
influencedBy Albertus Magnus
linked to: Albert the Great

Aristotle
Thomas Aquinas
linked to: St. Thomas Aquinas
languageOfWorkOrName Italian
Latin
memberOf College of Cardinals
Roman Curia
movement Thomism
notableFor commentaries on Thomas Aquinas
debate with Martin Luther at Augsburg
early Catholic response to the Protestant Reformation
notableWork Commentary on Aristotle
Commentary on the Summa Theologiae
Commentary on the Summa contra Gentiles
De ente et essentia commentary
linked to: De ente et essentia

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occupation cardinal
philosopher
theologian
university teacher
philosophicalSchool Scholasticism
placeOfBirth Gaeta
Kingdom of Naples
placeOfDeath Papal States
Rome
positionHeld Cardinal-priest
Master General of the Dominican Order
papal legate
papal theologian
religion Catholic Church
linked to: Roman Catholicism
religiousOrder Dominican Order
linked to: Dominican friars

Order of Preachers

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Roman Inquisition theologians notableMember Tommaso de Vio Cajetan
Baroque scholasticism hasKeyFigure Tommaso de Vio Cajetan